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  • Exercise Physiology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Switching exercise protocols, such as interval training, are widely used for enhancing cardiovascular fitness.
  • Simulating human exercise responses during switching protocols presents challenges in maintaining output continuity and accommodating varying intensities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a model that accurately simulates human onset and offset exercise responses during switching protocols.
  • To ensure continuity of outputs and accommodate different exercise intensities at the start and end of exercise.

Main Methods:

  • Twenty-one healthy subjects performed single-cycle and repetitive switching exercises on a treadmill.
  • Heart rate (HR) and oxygen uptake (VO2) were monitored; a resistance-capacitor (RC) circuit model was proposed.
  • Model performance was verified using Root-mean-square-error (RMSE) and correlation coefficients against experimental data.

Main Results:

  • Experimental data showed distinct onset and offset characteristics for both HR and VO2.
  • The proposed RC circuit model successfully simulated exercise responses, showing good agreement with observed data from both single and repetitive protocols.

Conclusions:

  • The developed model effectively simulates human exercise responses, ensuring output continuity and accommodating varying exercise strengths.
  • A unique adaptation feature allows the model to mimic daily exercise variations more closely by adjusting time constants and steady-state gain.